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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
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